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Editor’s Note: Later today, PA Senators Tomlinson (R) and Dinniman (D) are expected to unveil their proposal to allow PASSHE universities to secede from the state system and become a “state-related” university like Penn State or Temple. Raging Chicken Press was the first to report …

If Allyson Schwartz wins the primary, Governor Tom Corbett is getting ready to use Allyson Schwartz’s Farm Bill Vote against her because the governor has promised to rollback the SNAP cuts in the Farm Bill, the bill that Allyson Schwartz still defends to this day. …

In response to the Comcast building proposal and the money Governor Corbett dedicated to the new project, I filed a Right to Know request looking at communications between Comcast executives and Governor Corbett’s office. The files didn’t produce anything nefarious, but it had a couple …

Originally posted at The Wrench: THE WRENCH: Mad Max Myers is not my Anti-Fracking Savior Recently, in the interest of providing our coalition membership an opportunity to educate themselves about the ideological commitments, policy positions, and political strategies of candidates aspiring to the nomination for …

So this happened today… But as the Pittsburgh Post Gazette points out, Governor Corbett is absolutely wrong about the jobless numbers. The post reads: Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate fell from 7.3 percent in November to 6.9 percent in December even as the state lost 11,400 jobs …

Like a couple hundred residents of the Philadelphia area who are angry about Governor Corbett’s attack on public education and public higher education, I ventured Broad and Olney to protest Governor Corbett speaking at a Philadelphia public school for the first time in his three …

So Governor Corbett had a sudden conversion on some of his views on issues affecting the gay community, or the governor is kowtowing to a minority group that he and his administration has treated like shit for the past few years. The legislation he all …

Editor’s note: On November 13, 2013, ESU President Marcia Welsh wrote a Pocono Record Op-Ed responding to growing resistance to her decision to slash faculty and gut academic programs. Welsh claimed that “While the recent decisions made at ESU are unpopular with some, they are necessary.” ESU …

October 30th marked the first major deadline for PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) university presidents to notify the faculty union about faculty cuts. The contract between PASSHE and the faculty union, APSCUF, sets October 30th as the date by which tenured faculty members must …

Clarion University students and faculty gathered around 7 am this morning to protest Clarion University president, Karen Whitney’s, plan to gut faculty and programs. President Whitney released a revised “workforce plan” on Tuesday showing plans to eliminate several academic programs and cut 36 jobs, including …

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Are you a
trade union worker? Have you ever worked
at a “prevailing wage” job site? Then today in Labor History, is an important day for you. The year was 1931. Congress
passed the Davis-Bacon Act. This act
requires that any new construction or repair of a public building or public
works project of more than $2,000 that includes federal funding must pay a
“prevailing wage.”&nbs […]

On this day in Labor History the year was 1937. The Steel
Workers Organizing Committee, and US Steel signed their first, historic labor
agreement. Previous
efforts to organize steel workers had failed due to the union-busting tactics of
the steel mill owners.&nbs […]